CrossOver Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to CrossOver for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Wine, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to CrossOver and 13 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to CrossOver are PlayOnLinux (Free, Open Source), Proton (Free, Open Source), Parallels Desktop (Paid) and Pegasus (Free, Open Source).
- Run Windows software on Linux and other supported systems in an advanced Windows runtime rather than emulation. View 22 alternatives to Wine
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac at http://www.playonmac. View 30 alternatives to PlayOnLinux
- Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on... View 19 alternatives to Proton
- Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered... View 46 alternatives to Parallels Desktop
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
Parallels Desktop vs CrossOver
CrossOver emulates windows application layer. parallels creates a fully virtualised machine and requires Windows installation, like if it was a physical computer.This is a virtualization tool, not a compatibility layer - A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection. View 16 alternatives to Pegasus
- Q4Wine is a qt4 GUI for wine that will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications View 19 alternatives to Q4wine
- Nostlan is a high quality front-end launcher for video game emulators! Available on Linux, macOS, and Windows!. View 110 alternatives to Nostlan
- WineBottler is an App to manage and wrap your Windows apps into convenient OS X apps. WineBottler helps you with running Windows programs on OS X. View 19 alternatives to WineBottler
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Wine
WineBottler vs CrossOver
It's much more complicated than Crossover. CrossOver is simple to use and WineBottler is much more complicated - Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. View 17 alternatives to Wineskin Winery
- Run Linux programs on macOS, a different Linux distro, or a different architecture. View 12 alternatives to Karton